Worse, aid isn’t just ineffective, it is counter-productive. To summarise, western countries have pumped a trillion dollars into Africa over the last half century with almost nothing to show for it. The title of the book makes Moyo’s thesis pretty clear: Dead Aid – why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa. Furthermore, Dambisa Moyo is a woman, and an African, in a debate that is rather weighted towards white men in Western universities. It’s got a lot of attention because while there are many books that critique development aid, none have come out quite as aggressively and entirely against it. Dead Aid is a much talked about book that has taken me a little while to get round to.
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